One of them is lying to me - the cleaners or the neighbor

[Anonymous]

Another adult pot smoker here. Great post except for the last sentence. If I'm headed some place (a hike, gym, friends place, restaurant, etc) and want to get high first, it will be 2 or 3 quick hits off a bowl with the windows down. The smell will be gone within seconds. Few people older than 18 are driving around in a suburban neighborhood acting like Cheech and Chong, especially if they are here illegally and thus want to avoid interaction with

Really hope you aren’t getting high and driving. Not even going to address why any adult needs to get high before going to the gym or to a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So nice white mom catches her druggie kid relapsing and doing more drugs. Druggie kid lies and blames the Mexican housecleaners next door for the marijuana smoke to save herself from the consequences of her own actions. Nice white mom, wanting to believe that her druggie kid "wouldn't do that" and tells OP about the horrible people she has employed. And both nice white mom and OP rely on their knowledge of "those people" to know that it is far more likely that two hardworking housecleaners who have never shown any evidence of drug use would be hotboxing in a clients garage at 7:30 in the morning than a not really recovered and relapsing lazy white teen who has already been in rehab for drug problems. Because that's what Mexicans do

OP here. I think you're all being racist by bringing race into this. If we were to flip it and the cleaners are now two white women, I would still question them, as well.

I take race out of the equation here. I've seen white people do drugs, black families do drugs, latin families do drugs. Drugs don't see color. Nothing is off the table.
So maybe, just maybe I'm not only one here who is not racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So why didn't you explain so politely to your druggie neighbor that you don't like marijuana, that you don't like lying, and you don't want anyone who is smoking to be on your property?

What are you even talking about? I've never seen the neighbor on my property.

Don't skip your meds, please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So nice white mom catches her druggie kid relapsing and doing more drugs. Druggie kid lies and blames the Mexican housecleaners next door for the marijuana smoke to save herself from the consequences of her own actions. Nice white mom, wanting to believe that her druggie kid "wouldn't do that" and tells OP about the horrible people she has employed. And both nice white mom and OP rely on their knowledge of "those people" to know that it is far more likely that two hardworking housecleaners who have never shown any evidence of drug use would be hotboxing in a clients garage at 7:30 in the morning than a not really recovered and relapsing lazy white teen who has already been in rehab for drug problems. Because that's what Mexicans do

OP here. I think you're all being racist by bringing race into this. If we were to flip it and the cleaners are now two white women, I would still question them, as well.

I take race out of the equation here. I've seen white people do drugs, black families do drugs, latin families do drugs. Drugs don't see color. Nothing is off the table.
So maybe, just maybe I'm not only one here who is not racist.

You are a liar to say that people replying are "bringing race into" the story. You described the cleaners as Mexican about five times, insinuated that they're illegal (and then defaulted to assuming they're illegal later in the thread), and immediately assumed the worst about them, while extending benefit of the doubt to a known drug user because she's white and middle class. You keep saying "nothing is off the table" to justify blaming the cleaners, but it's clear that the obvious truth is off the table by the fact that you rebut every single person pointing out that the teenaged neighbor is clearly lying. You're either a troll or a racist, classist liar, but of course if nothing is off the table you could be both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So nice white mom catches her druggie kid relapsing and doing more drugs. Druggie kid lies and blames the Mexican housecleaners next door for the marijuana smoke to save herself from the consequences of her own actions. Nice white mom, wanting to believe that her druggie kid "wouldn't do that" and tells OP about the horrible people she has employed. And both nice white mom and OP rely on their knowledge of "those people" to know that it is far more likely that two hardworking housecleaners who have never shown any evidence of drug use would be hotboxing in a clients garage at 7:30 in the morning than a not really recovered and relapsing lazy white teen who has already been in rehab for drug problems. Because that's what Mexicans do

OP here. I think you're all being racist by bringing race into this. If we were to flip it and the cleaners are now two white women, I would still question them, as well.

I take race out of the equation here. I've seen white people do drugs, black families do drugs, latin families do drugs. Drugs don't see color. Nothing is off the table.
So maybe, just maybe I'm not only one here who is not racist.

If you took race out of the equation, you wouldn't have mentioned the races in your OP. You also would have realized that the neighbor girl with a drug addiction history was much more likely to be the liar than the housekeepers, especially at 7:30 in the morning when they were going to work and your neighbor was just trying to hide from her mom.

[Anonymous]

She brought "Mexican" into the question because she was accused of being racist....It's applicable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you made a mistake in accusing the cleaners of smoking marijuana without having any direct evidence yourself. I would expect you’d have been able to smell it on them if they were doing it in the car.

A better course of action would have been to thank the neighbors for the info and keep an eye on things. I’m not sure how you expected this to go. [/quote

This.]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She brought "Mexican" into the question because she was accused of being racist....It's applicable!

Reading fail.

Describing the housecleaners as Mexican was the 3rd word of the OP. She introduced it early to try and justify why she would overlook the obviously guilty, lying and drug relapsing white neighbor and blame the hardworking housecleaners who have been working for her for 5 years with no history of doing anything like what was insinuated by the neighbor.

You have a known drug abuser who is only recently out of rehab vs some hardworking blue collar workers who have no history of drug use. But, of course, the assumed illegal aliens were the ones who were going completely against type not the white neighbor who was going completely true to type.

[Anonymous]

I can't figure out why this is even an issue. I could care less if my cleaners show up stoned before cleaning my house. It is not a fun job and being high will at least make the job more bearable. It's not like they're performing surgery or flying a plane. By the time they're done cleaning, the high will have worn off most likely so you don't need to worry about their driving. It was most likely the neighbor trying to deflect blame. Shame your cleaners were even brought into it. I would've kept my mouth shut.

[Anonymous]

Of course the cleaners are lying. Who do you think benefits from lying- do you think the neighbors randomly decided to make up a story about your cleaner smoking weed for fun? Or do you think the most likely scenario is a cleaner (who you already admitted is lazy) was caught doing something she shouldnt and is covering for herself? Again- who benefits from lying? Honestly this should be obvious OP, you should even need to have it explained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't figure out why this is even an issue. I could care less if my cleaners show up stoned before cleaning my house. It is not a fun job and being high will at least make the job more bearable. It's not like they're performing surgery or flying a plane. By the time they're done cleaning, the high will have worn off most likely so you don't need to worry about their driving. It was most likely the neighbor trying to deflect blame. Shame your cleaners were even brought into it. I would've kept my mouth shut.

How dumb are you? No one (who's intelligent) wants to pay someone to do a job while drunk/high, out of it, unable to perform at their best. You sound very naive and stupid.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the cleaner girl is in it with the neighbors and they concocted a story so that then she would be able to accuse you of racial profiling (I am impressed by cleaners using big words btw) and sue you?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You are a liar to say that people replying are "bringing race into" the story. You described the cleaners as Mexican about five times, insinuated that they're illegal

Duh. This is the context to the only explanation I have to why they would be afraid someone called cops on them out of the blue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the cleaner girl is in it with the neighbors and they concocted a story so that then she would be able to accuse you of racial profiling (I am impressed by cleaners using big words btw) and sue you?!

She did actually use these exact words - "racial profiling". This was not a response I was expecting.
- Did you smoke pot in my house?
- You neighbors engaged in racial profiling and we were singled out and accused because we are brown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course the cleaners are lying. Who do you think benefits from lying- do you think the neighbors randomly decided to make up a story about your cleaner smoking weed for fun? Or do you think the most likely scenario is a cleaner (who you already admitted is lazy) was caught doing something she shouldnt and is covering for herself? Again- who benefits from lying? Honestly this should be obvious OP, you should even need to have it explained.

According to DCUM yes, the neighbors randomly decided to make up a story about my cleaners smoking weed.